It's complete bunkum.FWIW, this article came out today. It focuses on Intel/Loihi, and it mentions Brainchip toward the end:
"Lava is an open source framework with permissive licenses, so the expectation is that other neuromorphic chip makers—which include IBM, Qualcomm, and BrainChip—will port Lava to their own frameworks. It’s not proprietary, although Intel is the biggest contributor to it, Davies said."
Anyone care to comment?
You can put in hardware that costs $10 and uses milliwatts of power, what otherwise would take a $5000 dollar i7 + GPU and 400 Watts of power to simulate in real time.
as an example
Every CD/DVD player has in it a small piece of hardware ( a chip) that can code the data (Hamming Codes) so that scratches and bad data can be recovered in real time as the disc is played. That chip costs $2. DVD players cost $50. Everyone has a couple. Without that chip you would need an i7 etc in every DVD player. That's where we're aiming with Akida. Every sensor manufacturer will need the Akida IP in hardware, just as every DVD player needs the chip that runs a hamming coder.
That's why it's important to be first to market, and available to every manufacturer, including the assistance to manufactures and being a part of all chip designer's ecosystem. Or as many as you can be.